Consumption and Theories of Practice
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...Building on Giddens, Bourdieu, Schatzki and others, early practice theory studies on sustainable consumption emerged as offshoots from ecological modernization theory (Spaargaren, 2003), the sociology of consumption (Warde, 2005) and science and technology studies (Shove, 2003)....
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...First, it reveals the shortcomings of analyses that focus only on single practices and neglect the connections, alliances and conflicts between practices (cf. Warde, 2005)....
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...First, it suggests a need to look beyond single practices and towards the relations within and between whole bundles of practice that co-exist in particular domains of everyday life (cf. Warde, 2005)....
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...…behavioural models outlined above, social practice theorists, from Giddens (1984) and Bourdieu (1977, 1990), to more recent work by Reckwitz (2002), Schatzki (1996, 2002), Shove (2010, and see Shove and Pantzar, 2005) and Warde (2005), have all sought a middle level between agency and structure....
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...What this analysis suggests, however, is that if practices are indeed (re)produced through their regular performance (cf. Shove and Pantzar, 2005; Warde, 2005), it is precisely these subtle shifts in the elements of practice and in how they are experienced by practitioners that will prove central…...
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...…this view, anti- or pro-environmental actions, and more or less sustainable patterns of consumption, are not seen as the result of individuals’ attitudes, values and beliefs constrained by various contextual ‘barriers’, but as embedded within and occurring as part of social practices (Warde, 2005)....
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...…of the abstract theories which say that the consumer has no choice but to choose and will be judged in terms of the symbolic adequacy of that choice (e.g. Bauman, 1988; Giddens, 1991), have very often operated with models of highly autonomous individuals preoccupied with symbolic communication....
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